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Events on the 16th of January in history

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16 Jan 2027 Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus is granted the title Augustus by the Roman Senate, marking the beginning of the Roman Empire.
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16 Jan 0308 St Marcellus I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
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16 Jan 0378 General Siyaj K'ak' conquers Tikal, enlarging the domain of King Spearthrower Owl of Teotihuacán.
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16 Jan 0550 Gothic War: The Ostrogoths, under King Totila, conquer Rome after a long siege, by bribing the Isaurian garrison.
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16 Jan 0750 The army of Abdallah ibn Ali and Abu Awn Abd al-Malik ibn Yazid defeats that of Marwan II in the Battle of the Zab, bringing the Abbasid Revolution to completion.
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16 Jan 0929 Emir Abd-ar-Rahman III established the Caliphate of Córdoba.
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16 Jan 1120 The Council of Nablus is held, establishing the earliest surviving written laws of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem.
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16 Jan 1219 Floods in Northern Netherlands after storm, 1,000s killed
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16 Jan 1325 Laure de Noves, beloved of Petrarch, marries Hugues de Sade
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16 Jan 1362 A storm tide in the North Sea destroys the German city of Rungholt on the island of Strand.
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16 Jan 1412 The Medici family is appointed official banker of the Papacy.
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16 Jan 1492 The first grammar of the Spanish language is presented to Queen Isabella I.
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16 Jan 1493 Columbus returns to Spain on his 1st trip
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16 Jan 1531 English Reformation parliament's 2nd sitting
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16 Jan 1547 Ivan IV of Russia a.k.a. Ivan the Terrible becomes Czar of Russia.
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16 Jan 1547 Ivan IV the Terrible (17) crowns himself 1st tsar of Russia
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16 Jan 1556 Philip II becomes King of Spain.
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16 Jan 1556 Emperor Karel appoints his son Philip II, king of Spain
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16 Jan 1572 Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk is tried for treason for his part in the Ridolfi plot to restore Catholicism in England.
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16 Jan 1581 The English Parliament outlaws Roman Catholicism.
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16 Jan 1581 English parliament passes laws against Catholicism
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16 Jan 1605 The first edition of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha (Book One of Don Quixote) by Miguel de Cervantes is published in Madrid, Spain.
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16 Jan 1707 The Scottish Parliament ratifies the Act of Union, paving the way for the creation of Great Britain.
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16 Jan 1756 England & Prussia sign Treaty of Westminster
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16 Jan 1759 British Museum opens in London
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16 Jan 1761 The British capture Pondichéry, India from the French.
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16 Jan 1765 Charles Messier catalogs M41 (galactic cluster in Canis Major)
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16 Jan 1776 Continental Congress approves enlistment of free blacks
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16 Jan 1777 Vermont declares independence from New York
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16 Jan 1780 American Revolutionary War: Battle of Cape St. Vincent.
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16 Jan 1780 Battle at Cape St Vincent admiral Rodney beats Spanish fleet
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16 Jan 1786 Virginia enacted the Statute for Religious Freedom authored by Thomas Jefferson.
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16 Jan 1795 French army under Pichegru occupies Utrecht Netherlands
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16 Jan 1809 Peninsular War: The British defeat the French at the Battle of La Coruña.
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16 Jan 1819 Godert baron van der de Capellen becomes Governor of Dutch-Indies
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16 Jan 1832 Charles Darwin lands at San Tiago, Cape Verde
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16 Jan 1847 John C. Frémont is appointed Governor of the new California Territory.
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16 Jan 1862 Hartley Colliery Disaster: Two hundred four men and boys killed in a mining disaster, prompted a change in UK law which henceforth required all collieries to have at least two independent means of escape.
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16 Jan 1863 Cruise of CSS Florida
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16 Jan 1864 Heavy fighting takes place near Dandridge, Tennessee
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16 Jan 1865 Drunken sailor attacks munitions at Fort Fisher NC, 40 die
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16 Jan 1865 Confederate Brigadier General John Pegram marries Hetty Cary
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16 Jan 1865 San Francisco Dramatic Chronicle started
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16 Jan 1865 General William Sherman issues Field Order #15 (land for blacks)
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16 Jan 1868 Refrigerator car patented by William Davis, a fish dealer in Detroit
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16 Jan 1870 Virginia becomes 8th state re-admitted to US after Civil War
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16 Jan 1871 Jefferson Long of Georgia sworn in as 2nd black congressman
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16 Jan 1877 Color organ (for light shows) patented, by Bainbridge Bishop
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16 Jan 1878 Russo-Turkish War (1877–78): Battle of Philippopolis: Captain Aleksandr Burago with a squadron of Russian Imperial army dragoons liberates Plovdiv from Ottoman rule.
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16 Jan 1879 January record 13" of snow falls in NYC (broken Jan 7, 1996)
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16 Jan 1879 January record 13" of snow falls in New York City NY (broken Jan 7, 1996)
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16 Jan 1883 Quebec Rugby Football Union forms
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16 Jan 1883 The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, establishing the United States Civil Service, is passed.
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16 Jan 1883 Pendleton Act creates basis of US Civil Service system
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16 Jan 1887 Cliff House damaged when schooner "Parallel"'s powder cargo explodes
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16 Jan 1889 128
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16 Jan 1896 Defeat of Cymru Fydd at South Wales Liberal Federation AGM, Newport, Monmouthshire.
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16 Jan 1897 John Dewey's essay "My Pedagogic Creed" appears in School Journal
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16 Jan 1900 The United States Senate accepts the Anglo-German treaty of 1899 in which the United Kingdom renounces its claims to the Samoan islands.
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16 Jan 1905 Stanley Cup Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Dawson City (Yukon) in 2 games Ottawa Silver 7 beats Dawson City (Yukon) 23-2 for Stanley Cup, this is most lopsided playoff game, Frank McGee scores 14 goals
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16 Jan 1905 Baseball outfielder Frank Huelsman traded for 6th time in 8 months
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16 Jan 1906 Conference of Algeciras (about Morocco)
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16 Jan 1908 Pinnacles National Monument, California established
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16 Jan 1909 Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic South Pole.
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16 Jan 1909 British explorer Ernest Shackleton finds magnetic south pole
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16 Jan 1909 David, Mawson & Mackay reach south magnetic pole
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16 Jan 1911 Pandora becomes 1st 2-man sailboat to round Cape Horn west to east
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16 Jan 1913 British House of Commons accepts Home-Rule for Ireland
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16 Jan 1914 Writer Maksim Gorki returns to Russia
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16 Jan 1915 Congress authorizes $1 and $50 Panama-Pacific International Expo gold coin
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16 Jan 1915 Congress authorizes $1 & $50 Panam
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16 Jan 1919 Temperance movement: The United States ratifies the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, authorizing Prohibition in the United States one year after ratification.
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16 Jan 1919 Prohibition ratified by 3/4 of the states; Nebraska is 36th
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16 Jan 1920 18th Amendment, prohibition, goes into effect; repealed in 1933
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16 Jan 1920 The League of Nations holds its first council meeting in Paris, France.
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16 Jan 1920 Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Incorporated was founded on the campus of Howard University.
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16 Jan 1920 Georgia declares independence
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16 Jan 1920 1st assembly of League of Nations (Paris)
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16 Jan 1920 18th Amendment, prohibition, becomes the law of the land - one year after ratification; it is repealed in 1933
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16 Jan 1921 The Marxist Left in Slovakia and the Transcarpathian Ukraine holds its founding congress in Ľubochňa.
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16 Jan 1924 Eleftherios Venizelos becomes Prime Minister of Greece for the fourth time.
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16 Jan 1925 Leon Trotsky dismissed as CEO of Russian Revolution Military Council
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16 Jan 1925 General M Froense replaces Trotsky as People's Commissioner of Defense
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16 Jan 1931 Bradman scores 223 Australia vs West Indies, 297 minutes, 26 fours
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16 Jan 1933 Bert Oldfield flattened by Larwood delivery in Adelaide Test
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16 Jan 1936 1st photo finish camera installed at Hialeah Race track in Hialeah Florida
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16 Jan 1936 Spanish socialists / communists / anarchists form Unidad Popular
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16 Jan 1936 Screen Actors Guild incorporates with King Vidor as president
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16 Jan 1938 Benny Goodman, and his band, performed in concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City
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16 Jan 1938 Benny Goodman refuses to play Carnegie Hall when black members of his band were barred from performing
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16 Jan 1939 Comic strip "Superman" debuts
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16 Jan 1939 The Irish Republican Army (IRA) begins a bombing and sabotage campaign in England.
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16 Jan 1939 Comic strip "Superman" debuts
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16 Jan 1941 US vice admiral Bellinger warns of an assault on Pearl Harbor
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16 Jan 1941 War Department forms 1st Army Air Corps squadron for black cadets
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16 Jan 1942 Crash of TWA Flight 3, killing all 22 aboard, including film star Carole Lombard.
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16 Jan 1942 William Knudsen becomes 1st civilian appointed a General in US army
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16 Jan 1943 Red Army recaptures Pitomnik airport at Stalingrad
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16 Jan 1943 German 2nd SS-Pantzer division evacuates Charkow
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16 Jan 1943 1st US air raid on Ambon
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16 Jan 1943 -60
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16 Jan 1944 General Eisenhower took command of Allied Invasion Force in London
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16 Jan 1945 Adolf Hitler moves into his underground bunker, the so-called Führerbunker.
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16 Jan 1945 US 1st & 3rd army meet at Houffalise
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16 Jan 1945 Scottish 52nd land division/1st Commando brigade-assault at Heinsberg
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16 Jan 1947 Vincent Aurial elected President of France
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16 Jan 1948 35 Haganah members are ambushed & killed in Gush Etzyon
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16 Jan 1949 "Rape of Lucretia" closes at Ziegfeld Theater NYC after 23 performances
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16 Jan 1949 WTOP (now WUSA) TV channel 9 in Washington DC (CBS) 1st broadcast
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16 Jan 1949 KNBH (now KNBC) TV channel 4 in Los Angeles CA (NBC) 1st broadcast
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16 Jan 1949 "Rape of Lucretia" closes at Ziegfeld Theater New York City NY after 23 performances
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16 Jan 1950 Belgium, Luxembourg & Netherlands recognize Israel
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16 Jan 1951 Viet Minh offensive against Hanoi
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16 Jan 1951 World's largest gas pipeline opens (Brownsville TX, to 134th St, New York City NY)
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16 Jan 1952 US Standard Board clears Stan Musial to get an $85,000 salary
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16 Jan 1952 New Dutch bible translation finished
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16 Jan 1953 KXLY TV channel 4 in Spokane, WA (ABC / CBS) begins broadcasting
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16 Jan 1953 Egyptian Premier General Naguib disbands all political parties
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16 Jan 1953 41st Australian Mens Tennis Ken Rosewall beats Mervyn Rose (60 63 64)
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16 Jan 1953 27th Australian Womens Tennis Maureen Connolly beat J Sampson (63 62)
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16 Jan 1954 "South Pacific" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 1928 performances
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16 Jan 1954 "South Pacific" closes at Majestic Theater New York City NY after 1928 performances
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16 Jan 1955 Jackie Pung wins LPGA Sea Island Golf Open
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16 Jan 1956 President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt vows to reconquer Palestine.
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16 Jan 1956 Egyptian President Nassar pledges to reconquer Palestine
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16 Jan 1957 Cavern Club (home of Beatles' 1st appearance) opens on Mathew Street in England
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16 Jan 1957 3 B-52s leave California for 1st non-stop round the world flights
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16 Jan 1958 William Gibson's "Two for the Seesaw" premieres in New York City NY
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16 Jan 1961 "Conquering Hero" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 8 performances
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16 Jan 1961 Russian espionage ring detected in Great Britain
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16 Jan 1961 "Conquering Hero" opens at ANTA Theater New York City NY for 8 performances
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16 Jan 1962 Shooting begins on "Dr No"
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16 Jan 1962 Suit accuses NYC Board of Education uses "racial quotas"
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16 Jan 1962 Shooting begins on "Dr No"
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16 Jan 1962 Suit accuses New York City NY Board of Education uses "racial quotas"
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16 Jan 1963 Tennessee Williams' "Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore" premieres
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16 Jan 1963 Khrushchev claims to have a 100-megaton nuclear bomb
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16 Jan 1964 "Hello, Dolly!" opens at St. James Theater NYC for 2,844 performances
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16 Jan 1964 AL owners vote 9-1 against Charlie Finley moving Kansas City Athletics to Louisville
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16 Jan 1964 Hello, Dolly! (musical) starring Carol Channing opened on Broadway, beginning a run of 2,844 performances.
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16 Jan 1964 "Hello, Dolly!" starring Carol Channing, opens at St James Theater New York City NY for 2,844 performances
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16 Jan 1965 "Oh What a Lovely War" closes at Broadhurst NYC after 125 performances
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16 Jan 1965 "Outer Limits" last airs on ABC-TV
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16 Jan 1965 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakstan/Semipalatinsk USSR
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16 Jan 1965 Searchers' "Love Potion #9" peaks at #3
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16 Jan 1965 AFL Pro Bowl West beats East 38-14
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16 Jan 1965 "Outer Limits" last airs on ABC-TV
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16 Jan 1965 "Oh What a Lovely War" closes at Broadhurst New York City NY after 125 performances
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16 Jan 1966 Metropolitan Opera House opens in Lincoln Center
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16 Jan 1966 Harold R Perry becomes 2nd black Roman Catholic bishop in US
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16 Jan 1967 Lucius Amerson, becomes 1st southern (Alabama) black sheriff in 20th century
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16 Jan 1967 1st black government installed in Bahamas
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16 Jan 1968 Jay Allen's "Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" premieres in New York City NY
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16 Jan 1968 21st NHL All-Star Game Toronto beat All-Stars 4-3 at Toronto
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16 Jan 1969 Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5 perform the first-ever docking of manned spacecraft in orbit, the first-ever transfer of crew from one space vehicle to another, and the only time such a transfer was accomplished with a space walk.
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16 Jan 1969 Czech student Jan Palach commits suicide by self-immolation in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in protest against the Soviets' crushing of the Prague Spring the year before.
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16 Jan 1969 Soviet Soyuz 4 & Soyuz 5 perform 1st transfer of crew in space
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16 Jan 1969 Jan Palach immolates himself to protest Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia
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16 Jan 1970 Buckminster Fuller receives the Gold Medal award from the American Institute of Architects.
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16 Jan 1970 Curt Flood files a civil lawsuit challenging baseball's reserve clause
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16 Jan 1970 Colonel Kadhaffi becomes premier of Libya
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16 Jan 1970 NFL realigns into 3 divisions (down from 4)
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16 Jan 1970 AAU player Steve Myers makes a basketball field goal of 92'3
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16 Jan 1971 Ard Schenk skates world record 1500m (1 58.7)
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16 Jan 1972 Super Bowl VI Dallas Cowboys-24, Miami-3 in New Orleans; Super Bowl MVP Roger Staubach, Dallas, Quarterback
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16 Jan 1972 Atje Keulen-Deelstra becomes European all-round lady skating champ
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16 Jan 1973 NBC presents 440th and final showing of "Bonanza"
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16 Jan 1973 NBC presents 440th & final showing of "Bonanza"
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16 Jan 1973 USSR's Lunakhod 2 begins radio-controlled exploration of the Moon
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16 Jan 1974 "Jaws" by Peter Benchley is published
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16 Jan 1974 L A Landslide kills 9, Canyonville, Oregon
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16 Jan 1974 New York Yankees Mickey Mantle & Whitey Ford elected to Hall of Fame
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16 Jan 1974 "Jaws" by Peter Benchley is published
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16 Jan 1976 "Donny & Marie" Osmond musical variety show premieres on ABC TV
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16 Jan 1976 Peter Frampton released platinum live album "Frampton Comes Alive"
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16 Jan 1977 Washington Capital's H Monahan scored on 2nd penalty shot against Islanders
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16 Jan 1978 5th American Music Award Stevie Wonder, Fleetwood Mac & Conway Twitty
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16 Jan 1978 Soyuz 27 returns to Earth
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16 Jan 1979 The last Iranian Shah flees Iran with his family for good and relocates to Egypt.
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16 Jan 1979 Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi of Iran flees Iran for Egypt
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16 Jan 1980 Paul McCartney jailed in Tokyo for 10 days on marijuana possession
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16 Jan 1981 Ivan Lendl intentionally loses a match in Volvo Masters in order to avoid having to play Bjorn Borg
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16 Jan 1981 John Lennon releases "Woman" in the UK
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16 Jan 1981 Boxer Leon Spinks is mugged, his assailants even take his gold teeth
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16 Jan 1981 Protestant gunmen shoot & wound Bernadette Devlin McAliskey & husband
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16 Jan 1981 John Lennon's "Woman" is released in UK
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16 Jan 1984 11th American Music Award Michael Jackson
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16 Jan 1984 Paul & Linda McCartney arrested in Barbados-possession of cannabis
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16 Jan 1985 "Playboy" announces end of stapling centerfolds
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16 Jan 1986 First meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force.
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16 Jan 1986 Police arrested 3 IRA-terrorists in Amsterdam
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16 Jan 1988 Jimmy "the Greek" Snyder fired from CBS for racial remarks
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16 Jan 1988 NFL St Louis Cardinals announce move to Phoenix
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16 Jan 1989 Police arrest writer Vaclav Havel in Prague
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16 Jan 1989 USSR announces plan for 2-year manned mission to Mars
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16 Jan 1990 2 Bank of Credit & Commerce members plea guilty to money laundering
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16 Jan 1991 US and 27 allies attack Iraq for occupying Kuwait (US time)
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16 Jan 1991 The Coalition Forces go to war with Iraq, beginning the Gulf War (U.S. Time).
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16 Jan 1991 7th Soap Opera Digest Awards - Days of Our Live wins
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16 Jan 1991 Operation Desert Storm begins - US & 27 allies attack Iraq for occupying Kuwait (air war begins January 17 at 2:38AM (local time) or January 16 at 6:38PM EST due to an 8 hour time difference, with an Apache helicopter attack)
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16 Jan 1992 "2 Shakespearean Actors" opens at Cort Theater NYC for 29 performances
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16 Jan 1992 El Salvador officials and rebel leaders sign the Chapultepec Peace Accords in Mexico City, Mexico ending the 12-year Salvadoran Civil War that claimed at least 75,000 lives.
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16 Jan 1992 "2 Shakespearean Actors" opens at Cort Theater New York City NY for 29 performances
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16 Jan 1994 Scott skates world record 1000m (1 12.54)
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16 Jan 1995 UPN (Universal-Parmount Network) begins telecasting (WWOR in New York City NY)
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16 Jan 1997 Anthony Stuart takes ODI hat-trick, Australia vs Pakistan, MCG
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16 Jan 2001 US President Bill Clinton awards former President Theodore Roosevelt a posthumous Medal of Honor for his service in the Spanish–American War.
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16 Jan 2001 Congolese President Laurent-Désiré Kabila is assassinated by one of his own bodyguards.
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16 Jan 2002 The UN Security Council unanimously establishes an arms embargo and the freezing of assets of Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda, and the remaining members of the Taliban.
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16 Jan 2003 The Space Shuttle Columbia takes off for mission STS-107 which would be its final one. Columbia disintegrated 16 days later on re-entry.
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16 Jan 2005 Romanian university lecturer and novelist Adriana Iliescu gives birth at 66 to her daughter Eliza, breaking the record for the oldest birth mother in the world
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16 Jan 2006 Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is sworn in as Liberia's new president. She becomes Africa's first female elected head of state.
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16 Jan 2013 An estimated 41 international workers are taken hostage in an attack in the town of In Aménas, Algeria.
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